Billy Joel Quotes

They showed you a statue and told you to pray They built you a temple and locked you away But they never told you the price that you pay For things that you might have done.

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• I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Done

• Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Done
  • Political
  • New

• I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Blessed

• Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Done
  • Why
  • Talk

• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • World
  • Done
  • Want

• We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• I'd previously done 'Expelled,' and that was more on the comedy side, so I really wanted to challenge myself and see if I could actually do a drama.

  

  Cameron Dallas
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  • Comedy
  • Myself

• Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
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  • Crazy
  • Island

• I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Face

• I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Done
  • Job
  • Beauty

• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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  • Job
  • Best

• I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Done
  • Relationship

• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  

  Rand Paul
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  • Party
  • Day

• Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

  

  Yami Gautam
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  • Success
  • Right

• I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Done
  • Guy

• I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show.

  

  Angela Robinson
  • Done
  • Career

• In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.

  

  D.A. Wallach
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.

  

  Ben Dolnick

• My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Hard Work

• I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Child

• They showed you a statue and told you to pray They built you a temple and locked you away But they never told you the price that you pay For things that you might have done.

  

  Billy Joel
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  • Price
  • Pray